Key Information
Reference code
TH/PP/16
Title
Notebooks, 1777-[1824] belonging to Henry Cline, 1750-1827, surgeon
Date(s)
- 1777-[1824] (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
General Information
Name of creator
(1750-1827)
Biographical history
Born, London, 1750; educated, Merchant Taylors' School; apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Smith, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1767; frequently lectured for Joseph Else, then lecturer on anatomy; diploma from Surgeons' Hall, 1774; attended a course of John Hunter's lectures, and was much influenced by them, 1774; lecturer on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1781-1811; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1784-1811; examiner at the College of Surgeons, 1810; Master of the College of Surgeons, 1815; delivered the Hunterian oration, 1816, 1824; President of the College of Surgeons, 1823; died, 1827. Publications: On the Form of Animals (Bulmer & Co, London, 1805).